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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Infobox CanadianMP
| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| name = Kamal Khera
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|MP|size=100%}}
| image =
| imagesize =
| office = [[Minister of Seniors]]
| primeminister = [[Justin Trudeau]]
| term_start = October 26, 2021
| term_end =
| predecessor = [[Deb Schulte]]
| successor =
| office1 = [[Parliamentary Secretary]] to the [[Minister of International Development]]
| minister1 = [[Karina Gould]]
| term_start1 = August 31, 2018
| term_end1 = January 31, 2021
| predecessor1 = [[Celina Caesar-Chavannes]]
| successor1 = ''Vacant''
| office2 = [[Parliamentary Secretary]] to the [[Minister of National Revenue]]
| minister2 = [[Diane Lebouthillier]]
| term_start2 = January 30, 2017
| term_end2 = August 31, 2018
| predecessor2 = [[Emmanuel Dubourg]]
| successor2 = [[Deb Schulte]]
| office3 = [[Parliamentary Secretary]] to the [[Minister of Health (Canada)|Minister of Health]]
| minister3 = [[Jane Philpott]]
| term_start3 = December 2, 2015
| term_end3 = January 27, 2017
| predecessor3 = [[Cathy McLeod]]
| successor3 = [[Darren Fisher]]
| riding4 = [[Brampton West]]
| parliament4 = Canadian
| term_start4 = October 19, 2015
| term_end4 =
| predecessor4 = [[Kyle Seeback]]
| successor4 =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1989|02|04}}<ref>{{cite web |title=David Akin 🇨🇦 on Twitter: "Happy 30th birthday to Brampton West MP @KamalKheraLib 1" |url=https://twitter.com/davidakin/status/1092611068587732992 |website=twitter.com |publisher=Twitter |date=February 4, 2019|access-date=February 12, 2019}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Delhi]], [[India]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| profession =
| alma_mater = [[York University]]
| party = [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
| residence = [[Brampton]], [[Ontario]]
| footnotes =
| spouse =
| children =
| occupation = {{hlist|Registered nurse|politician}}
}}

'''Kamalpreet Khera''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|MP}} (born February 4, 1989) is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] politician who has been the [[Minister of Seniors|minister of seniors]] since October 26, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-10-23|title=The Honourable Kamal Khera|url=https://pm.gc.ca/en/cabinet/honourable-kamal-khera|access-date=2021-10-27|website=Prime Minister of Canada|language=en}}</ref> A member of the [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal Party]], Khera was elected to represent the [[electoral district (Canada)|riding]] of [[Brampton West]] in the [[House of Commons of Canada|House of Commons]] following the [[2015 Canadian federal election|2015 federal election]].
==Career==
Kamal Khera is a registered nurse. She attended York University where she earned an Honours Bachelors of Science in Nursing. Prior to politics, she worked as a registered nurse in the oncology unit at St. Joseph’s Health Centre Toronto.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-12-02|title=Kamal Khera|url=https://pm.gc.ca/en/parliamentary-secretaries/kamal-khera|access-date=2021-03-01|website=Prime Minister of Canada|language=en}}</ref>
==Federal politics==
Khera was nominated as the Liberal Party's candidate in Brampton West in December 2014, and won the seat in the federal election in the following October.<ref>[http://www.bramptonguardian.com/news-story/5200370-liberals-find-candidate-in-brampton-west-for-next-federal-election/ Liberals find candidate in Brampton West for next federal election], ''The Brampton Guardian'', December 10, 2014.</ref><ref>[http://www.bramptonguardian.com/news-story/5968146-brampton-west-liberal-kamal-khera-wins-brampton-west/ Liberal Kamal Khera wins Brampton West], ''The Brampton Guardian'', October 20, 2015.</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=20 October 2015|title=19 Indian-Canadians elected to Canadian parliament|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/nris-in-news/19-indian-canadians-elected-to-canadian-parliament/articleshow/49464520.cms|access-date=20 October 2015|publisher=[[The Economic Times]]}}</ref> When first elected in 2015, Khera was the youngest Liberal MP in the House, and the second-youngest overall behind the [[New Democratic Party|NDP]]'s [[Pierre-Luc Dusseault]].<ref>John Paul Tasker, [http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/new-mps-class-of-2015-1.3281771 Meet the Class of 2015: Notable Rookies headed to Parliament Hill], CBC.ca, October 22, 2015.</ref> She was re-elected in the 2019 federal election,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gamrot|first1=Sabrina|date=21 October 2019|title=Brampton West re-elects Liberal Kamal Khera|work=The Brampton Guardian|publisher=Metroland Media Group|location=Brampton ON|url=https://www.bramptonguardian.com/news-story/9655522-brampton-west-re-elects-liberal-kamal-khera/|access-date=7 January 2021}}</ref> and in 2021.

'''Parliamentary Secretary'''

On December 2, 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Khera as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health, then as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue (January 2017 – August 2018) and from August 2018 to January 2021, Khera served as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development.<ref>
She was later appointment parliamentary secretary to the Minister of National Revenue (2016-2018) and in September 2018,she was appointed parliamentary secretary to the minister of International Development.[https://ipolitics.ca/2015/12/02/trudeau-names-35-new-parliamentary-secretaries//]</ref>

Khera stepped down from her role as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development in January 2021, after having travelled to Seattle in December for a memorial service for her uncle despite the border between the United States and Canada being closed to all nonessential travel at the time due to the coronavirus pandemic.<ref>{{cite news |last1=DeClerq |first1=Katherine |title=Brampton West MP to step aside from parliamentary role after travelling to U.S. for memorial |url=https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/brampton-west-mp-to-step-aside-from-parliamentary-role-after-travelling-to-u-s-for-memorial-1.5252028 |access-date=3 January 2021 |work=CTV News |date=3 January 2021 |location=Toronto ON}}</ref>

On September 20, 2021, Khera was re-elected as the Member of Parliament for the riding of Brampton West.

On October 26, 2021, Khera was promoted to the position of Minister of Seniors in Justin Trudeau's cabinet, succeeding Deb Schulte, the outgoing Minister of Seniors who lost re-election in the riding of King-Vaughan. She is amongst the youngest members of the cabinet and the Privy Council of Canada.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-10-23|title=The Honourable Kamal Khera|url=https://pm.gc.ca/en/cabinet/honourable-kamal-khera|access-date=2021-10-27|website=Prime Minister of Canada|language=en}}</ref>

==Electoral record==
{{Canadian federal election, 2019/Brampton West}}
{{Canadian federal election, 2015/Brampton West}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://kamalkhera.liberal.ca/ Official Website]
&[https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-cabinet-list-2021-1.6225231]

{{Current Members of the Canadian House of Commons}}

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